you seem to be missing the point either purposely or that you really don’t understand.
The leader and self-proclaimed prophet of said polygamist sect is serving time in jail for what? Forcing a minor girl to marry her cousin. She objected. He is awaiting trial for the same allegations that he is now serving a sentence for. Jeffs is the David Koresh of the YFZ community. A community in which people follow his preaching and laws. The preaching of which, include the marrying off of underage girls to adult men without their consent.
Apparently, you see nothing wrong here. Thankfully our courts disagree with your cavelier attitudes towards the rights of children not to be handed off in marriage.
The entire situation of 400 children having to be removed from a community whose basic patriarcal tenents revolves around wholesale child rape and breeding lay squarely at the feet of those who allow such crimes to continue. By turning a blind eye for so many years, by not taking serious the women and boys who either escape or were thrown out, by throwing up out hands because of our “freedom of religion” rights that would allow any nut to proclaim himself a prophet, we have created the mess that these kids and women now find themselves in. Clearly, very clearly, the rights regarding “religious freedom” is in need of closer examination so that this wholesale pedophilia sex slavery that ran through the YFZ ranch never happens again. Agreed?
Are the children better off in foster care? That remains to be seen. That they should not remain in the hands of parents who followed such a creep as Warren Jeffs is clear in order to protect the young girls from this “spiritual marriage” bullsh!t is in my opinion right and just. You may disagree. You may also disgree with the texas consent laws. You may also agree that forced marriages are A O K. That is your choice. Our judicial system sadly for you, doesn’t agree with you.
Our laws persist to protect the weakest of us. This group lived outside our basic laws and the laws of texas. Sadly, the mothers in this case are deemed just as guilty as the fathers of the abuse of children and lose their rights, temporarily, until their case is solved.
I would say this is an important lesson for us all.
I would also say, the opinion of your complete and utter idiocy still stands.
And to the other idiot who chirped something about the muslims in this country blablabla “forced marriage” “multiple wives.” Have you ever heard of two wrongs don’t make a right? Your point HAS no point. The laws will get to them soon enough, through more awarness and transparency and through the ever increasing women’s rights movement amoung americanized muslim women. Only a matter of time.
have a nice day
